Nonprofit
Director of Opportunity Partnerships
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Description
NAFHE is hiring a Director of Opportunity Partnerships, based in Pasadena, California, who works hand in hand with the President and CEO. The position is shared with our affiliate, El Pueblo Community Development Corporation.
NAFHE is a national nonprofit with offices in California, Arizona, Louisiana, and Pennsylvania. We serve the communities we work in, creating opportunity and bettering livelihoods through our programs and through the six low-income housing properties we hold in Los Angeles with El Pueblo CDC and Hope Place Housing Corporation. We are building an organization that stands the test of time: resilient enough to endure, and flexible enough to adapt to whatever environment it operates in.
The Director owns the work that moves the organization forward beyond daily operations: the pipeline of grant and business opportunities, the projects under way at any given time, and the recapitalization of our properties through public-private partnerships. This is a political job as much as a management job. Nearly everything it touches runs through public agencies, elected officials, lenders, and partners, and most of its problems arrive without a procedure for solving them. The measure of the work is results, not activity. The question this person asks every week is: what can I contribute that will significantly affect the performance and results of this organization?
Benefits
For questions about the organization, email hi@nafhe.org.
Salary commensurate with experience and NAFHE offers a generous benefits package.
The National Association for Hispanic Elderly/Asociacion Nacional Pro Personas Mayores is a national non-profit that promotes opportunities and equity for persons 55 and older. Based in Pasadena, California, the 50-year-old organization serves all communities with an expertise in Latino and Latina public policy issues.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.
This NAFHE/ANPPM project received $12,843,943.00 from a grant awarded under the Senior Community Services Employment Program (SCSEP), as implemented by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Employment and Training Administration. $485,214 (add additional amount that’s considered leveraged resources from non-federal funds) of the project is financed by non-governmental sources.
Level of Language Proficiency
Bilingual in English and Spanish preferred.
Location
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What you'll do
- Relationships. Build working relationships across the public and private sectors: elected officials and their staffs, public agencies at every level, lenders, businesses, foundations, partner organizations whose decisions affect our funding, properties, and programs, and the like-minded organizations we exist alongside. Know who decides, who influences, and when to move.
- Opportunity pipeline. Find, qualify, and pursue grant and business opportunities from public and private sources, including donated funds. Keep a current pipeline with a clear recommendation on each: pursue, defer, or drop.
- Project portfolio. Run several organizational projects at once. Set objectives and deadlines with each owner, measure against them, and report plainly on what is on track and what is not.
- Properties. Work with the team to recapitalize our six low-income housing properties and build revenue-generating projects on them, both structured as public-private partnerships: financing options, partners, materials for lenders and agencies, targets and regular review.
- Problems without an owner. Take the stalled approval, the financing gap, the problem with no playbook; work it through with the President and the team to a decision.
- Representation and strategy. Draft proposals, letters, and briefings; represent NAFHE with partners, funders, and officials; contribute to strategy, communications, and fundraising. Occasional travel to our offices, properties, and partners.
What we're looking for
Required
- Political acumen. You know how decisions get made in government and institutions, who holds power and who holds influence, and how to build the relationships and the case that move them. You learned this in social advocacy or political campaigns, by trying, building on what worked, and learning from what didn't.
- Resilient. A problem solver who takes risks. When something stalls, you find out why and get it moving. You take calculated risks; when one fails you own it, learn, and go again, and when one works you amplify it. You have been knocked down and you got up.
- A self-starter. You set the objective and the plan and act without being told.
- Organized. You carry several projects at once, know where each stands, and meet deadlines without close supervision.
- A great communicator. In writing and in person: a proposal, a letter to an agency, a one-page briefing that holds up, and the case made to a funder, a partner, an official, or a board.
- A bachelor's degree and several years in public policy, campaigns, organizing, communications, fundraising, or nonprofit management, in any combination. We judge by results produced, not titles held. Comfort with budgets, grant requirements, and public funding processes; discretion with confidential matters; occasional travel.
A plus
- An advanced degree in public policy, public administration, business, urban planning, or a related field.
- Experience with public-private partnerships, low-income housing finance, real estate development, or property-based revenue projects.
- Experience with grants and grantee compliance.
- Speaks Spanish with partners and community members.
- Lived experience in, or deep ties to, the communities NAFHE serves.
